by admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Mass Media |
A couple of weeks ago Rev. Al Sharpton and other prominent African Americans (including NAACP head Benjamin Jealous and Council of Negro Women President Dorothy Heights) were invited to the White House to discuss President Obama’s job bill. Afterwards some of...
by admin | Feb 24, 2010 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm |
Last Saturday the NAACP replaced longtime Chairman Julian Bond, naming health-care administrator Roslyn M. Brock as its chairman. Brock, 44, is, like President/CEO Benjamin Jealous the first such chairman to never have experienced legal segregation. I’m mildly...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
Haiti is the first instance in the modern world of the enslaved taking their country back. And they’ve paid for it ever since. In talking about what’s going on in Haiti now, this is the SECOND thing that should be mentioned…as it provides context for...
by admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama |
One of my friends on facebook posted a brief snippet about Obama featuring Cornel West’s quote that he’d rather be in the crack house than the White House, accusing Obama of being at best oblivious to suffering and promoting neoliberal policies. I...
by admin | Jun 7, 2009 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama, The Mass Media |
(Every status update/blog entry/tweet I write today will have the title of one of Prince’s songs in it in honor of his 51st birthday.) If you’ve got about ten minutes of free time check out Davey D’s interview of Michael Eric Dyson below:...
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